During the last years we have detected a decrease in respect for safety distance, especially in the support class. We implore all players to revise their minimal engagement distance and adjust their choice of weapon (class) accordingly.

Remember the choice of weapon and class is yours and your primary obligation is its safety distance, there is no excuse for transgressions. Safety in airsoft is crucial and therefore we need to apply some measures to adjust this problem.

This year we will update our weapon rules, improve our documentation of vehicles and we will force a highly visible identification of vehicles (two digit number on front doors).This will both help players and crew to identify players behaving outside the rules. All cases were compromised player safety is proven will have zero tolerance from us in crew.

We have rewarded bolt action snipers and heavy snipers, adjusted limits of small portable machineguns like the m249 para model and made some joule adjustments according to bullet weight.

Please explain the thoughts behind the M249 para not to make it a support class?
I really don’t get this idea.

The RPK47M is also a support class version, but also has a foldable stock.
And not to forget the RPKS (same deal also foldable.)
So, this should be banned also?

Banned? certainly not. The question is if it's "max class" is 2 or 3. As the rules are now it belongs to class 2, as it's a compact version.
this is a valid question you make though.
I'll describe the problem more in depth (reposted from FB):
If logic should be applied to this topic 7.62+ would be the limit for Class 3. But to many are invested in "lighter" models...
And if we don't draw a line we have a "meta" were every1 runs around with Krytecs...
That said, were would you draw the line?

So... were are happy to receive suggestions, if a better "line" are suggested we will change.

This change was made because a clear majority of support players have invested in M249 Para due to its light weight and short stock, it has been used as an assault weapon more than a support weapon with no real drawback ( its not much larger or heavier than any common assault weapon ) .
This had caused a large number of incidents with regards to safety distances. In an attempt to make it more safe, and to limit the number of high powered machineguns in the field, we moved the M249 from class 3 to class 2. The only difference is the safety distance and max Power of the weapon, it's in no way a banned weapon. You can still take advantage of the Box Magazine and the perks that come with that.

Since most players who use this weapon use it as an assault weapon, we belive that this change will impact VERY few players since most can continue use it as they normally do - Just with less Power. More safe, more fair.

my M249 para from CA has a weight fully loaded of about 7,2 KG
my LCT RPK what ,much longer, has about 4,5 KG so it can not be the weight
Most m249 has fast spring changeable so nobody run into big problems ..change spring to 130 and everything is ok.

I fear more the 4,2J Spring Sniper ... limit of 3 Joule is enough i think.
I have a Ares Striker with the big CO² kit ...takes up to 660fps i will never play with that beast !

For me BE is good with that changes ..see how it work 2019 and make changes if its neccesary.

I hope to see more pistol fights around the forts and houses that gives more safety to all

I do agree with you 100% and I think many do. 7.62+ and nothing else should be HMG and Class 3. It's just the investment many has done for some LMGs like 249 to be a 2J gun... We have to think about it.